Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage.
He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford.
The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning".
Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951.
Since 1955 the internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
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Films (31)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
King's Rhapsody
1957 · Writer, Music
King's Rhapsody
1955 · Writer
The Dancing Years
1950 · Theatre Play
Free and Easy
1941 · Theatre Play
The Rat
1937 · Theatre Play
Glamorous Night
1937 · Theatre Play
Autumn Crocus
1934 · Andreas Steiner
I Lived with You
1933 · Prince Felix Lenieff, Theatre Play
Sleeping Car
1933 · Gaston
The Lodger
1932 · Michel Angeloff
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932 · Theatre Play, Writer
Tarzan the Ape Man
1932 · Writer
Once a Lady
1931 · Bennett Cloud
Symphony in Two Flats
1930 · David Kennard, Theatre Play
The Return of the Rat
1929 · Pierre Boucheron, Theatre Play
The Gallant Hussar
1928 · Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
A South Sea Bubble
1928 · Vernon Winslow
The Vortex
1928 · Nicky Lancaster
The Constant Nymph
1928 · Lewis Dodd
Downhill
1927 · Roddy Berwick, Original Story
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · The Lodger Jonathan Drew
The Triumph of the Rat
1926 · Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
The Rat
1925 · Pierre Boucheron, Writer
The Man Without Desire
1923 · Count Vittorio Dandolo, Producer
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1923 · Prince Charles Stuart, Music
The White Rose
1923 · Joseph
The Bohemian Girl
1922 · Thaddeus
Carnival
1921 · Count Andrea Scipione
Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
1920 · Ivor
The Call of the Blood
1919 · Maurice Delarey
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